Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday after his show was suspended following comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk, Disney has said in a statement released in the last few moments.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” the statement says.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
Who’s to say this isn’t all a stunt to boost ratings?
Perfectly executed publicity stunt
Publicity stunt by Disney? Do they really need publicity? They are Disney, the most publicized company of all time.
Not for Disney, they don’t need the publicity. Jimmy Kimmel’s show on the other hand would benefit drastically - just look at the publicity he’s been getting for the past week.
Holy shit boycotting works?
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Isn’t that the reason Target is a fucking metronome on social issues?
if it happens yes, the problem with boycotting is most people online who say they will boycott something usually don’t, or they weren’t using it in the first place.
this is especially true for games
It’s been sixteen fucking years.
it’s just a perfect picture. but this regularly happens in games. gAmErS are the worst bunch in boycotts because most of them don’t even have the discipline to wait for a fucking game to release let alone not play it at all. they just either “boycott” games they were never interested in at all in the first place or they just say it online for fake internet points and play the game anyway.
Good. Now I can go back to Disney+
That’s all it took huh? Zero lessons learnt.
Well, they took away Kimmel, we unsubscribed. They brought Kimmel back, we subscribe. Makes sense.
We’ve seen it works, but if we remain unsubscribed, next time around we won’t have anything to threaten them with.
Not to mention we should reward good behaviour, innit? Ain’t that how it works? Punish bad behaviour, reward good behaviour
Lol, and now we get to watch everybody buy their memberships again and the company will move forward like nothing ever happened.
I mean at the very least, hopefully they (and others Trump inevitably goes after) won’t be so willing to cave to authoritarian demands without a fight.
That’s kind of the way this all works. If even the people that could definitely afford to fight this in court signal they’re willing to just comply, then there’s no hope for everyone else.
I think John Oliver put it best when he said the response should have been, and should always be going forward “Fuck you, make me.”
Wait, so why wouldn’t they (and others trump goes after) be willing to cave without a fight?
We just watched them cave immediately without a fight, and then revert their decision after having “thoughtful conversations” behind the scenes that we’re not privy to.
We haven’t seen any victory, any pushback against this trampling of free speech, any principled disagreement. We’ve seen an immediate kowtowing.
I don’t know what those conversations behind the scenes entailed. I don’t know the future. But I’m going to predict the show that gets returned to air will be (even more) neutered. They won’t upset the administration again.
We’ll see what he does when he returned, but Trump is definitely pissy he didn’t get his way.
They demanded Kimmel be forced to apologize and I think pay money to the Charlie Kirk foundation. He did neither but for some reason his cancellation lasted less than a week.
They have the money and lawyers to fight this, they just didn’t want the hassle. Suddenly when it looked like it would be cutting into their profits they found the motivation to fight back.
We also haven’t heard from Carr as far as I know. This could still end up in court unless Carr is willing to just back down.
Let’s go ahead & start calling & boycotting all of NexStar and Sinclair’s advertisers since they decided they aren’t going to have Kimmel back.
https://www.distractify.com/p/how-to-boycott-sinclair-broadcast-group
“OK, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel,” he wrote on Facebook. “The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or Nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or sometime this week. 3. Note the companies that bought TV adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.”
“Trust me. I worked in TV for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact. Nothing,” he continued. “This is a much more effective tool than cancelling Disney. We did cancel Disney but calling Joe’s Jeep dealership who is buying adds on the local Nexstar station will have a BIG impact. Joe doesn’t need that grief. He will find another station to buy adverts on.”
Also, they are fascists & deserve to be destroyed anyhow.
I wrote a very angry letter, letting them know that I was switching my news source, cancelling Hulu, and in the future, I would pirate their content, and watch it without commercials.
That’s three revenue-sucking situations that every network hates, and it worked, they caved.
I also told them that I expect them to hold the line on free speech, and if Trump threatens to remove their FCC license, dare him to do it. That FCC license gives them a responsibility to this nation. Folding like they tried to do is unacceptable.
So you saved jimmy’s show?
Yep, single-handedly.
No, of course not. But ALL corporations understand that one person that takes the time to write a coherent, logical letter, and doesn’t threaten sexual violence against their daughters and elderly relatives, represent, and are speaking for, a very large number of people who are just sitting at home, pissed off and talking to their families.
Get enough of those letters, and the data analysis people in Marketing start getting extremely nervous. That’s what happened here. In fact, the walls crumbled so quickly, that they must have received an overwhelming amount of angry communications.
I believe the implication was that a significant amount of other people also did this.
No, thats fairm i was needlessly pointing out how it seemed like they were taking credit for the whole thing. It was supposed to be a joke but looking back, it wasn’t very funny.
Also like why does the FCC license even matter anymore? For the three people left still watching ABC over the air?
As much as it still hurts when companies walk back their decisions, it’s really important as consumers that we also walk back our decision on supporting them. If we always stop supporting them regardless, they will continue to make decisions that don’t support the people. It’s important that we have power in these scenario. In the end, it’s better that Kimmel is back on the air, and that he can joke and criticize what’s happening. Let’s support them walking it back.
Just putting him back isn’t enough if he seems muzzled. We’ll see.
Blah blah we want your money blah blah.
Exactly
Fuck em, arrr
They can die. I only pirate content from them, will never pay a dime.
Let’s fucking go. You don’t have to pretend to have a spine anymore and watch Disney slop again.
When TV’s tamest talkshow host gets his show banned, you know we’re in dystopian times.
So much for all the fascist right’s posturing on “free speech” lol
He might be tame but he leans liberal and that can’t be allowed because it hurts MAGA sensitive feelings. The lessons here is that MAGA positions immediately collapse under any sort of criticism or examination.
Never mind the hateful content Fox spews out 24/7.
Freedom warriors scared of a comedian.
They always are. Mel Brooks pointed that out years ago.
They know the tremendous power of strong propaganda, they have been developing the Conservative Propaganda Machine for decades.
They see this Blue Line at 11:30 pm, following the local news, and they know that even MAGAs, who tuned away from Fox News for a half hour to hear what happened in town, might accidentally end up staying tuned in, and hearing Colbert and Kimmel making fun of him.
They are far more than just comedians, they are chipping away at the wall in the brains of MAGA citizens. Every night they expose him for the buffoon he is, and eventually he is going to do something that even their MAGA followers think is buffoonery, and an entire brick will fall out of the wall. Once that happens, steady pressure will eventually make it crumble.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine understands all of this, and more. They have data tracking behavioral responses going back decades, and they have ALWAYS been hostile to the late night talk shows. Rather than adjust their behavior to reflect the rest of society, and thus avoid humiliation for their poor decisions, they would rather kill the messenger.
The mouse bends the knee. Cyber bullying works! Don’t resubscribe.
I kinda wish Kimmel had told them to get fucked and went somewhere else, or started his own podcast.
We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy
You mean conversations with your lawyers. I’m sure Kimmel was lawyering up for breach of contract.
Kimmel would have been okay, but by some estimates there are as many as 200 staff members out of their job, and he’d never be able to take all of them with him. As cathartic it would have been to see him levave Disney, staying was the best option for his team.
Meanwhile, over at CBS, a similar staff are all out of jobs.
And making it even harder would’ve been the fact that he makes it well known a significant portion of the people working on his show are members of his family.
I agree. “Yeah Disney, this is the consequence of your actions. Get fucked. Enjoy sucking Trump’s dick.” Would have been much better.
Keep. On. Boycotting.
They’re are just in PR damage control, they have not fired a single person or told Sinclair/Nextstar to fire those who actively voice support for fascism.
Sinclair is the one that needs to hurt at the moment since they refuse to run the show, let sponsors know you’re unhappy
Money, that’s our only way of influence.
Yes, this really isn’t difficult, or shouldn’t be, but Americans are incredibly addicted to convenience. I’ve been saying for years now that we don’t even need a general strike of workers not working, people simply need to stop being good little consumers for a while, only buy the essentials when necessary, cancel all extraneous services, stop using the fascists’ platforms. In a consumer economy, consumers hold the cards, but unfortunately we’ve been trained well and think we cannot live without 37 different streaming services and food and whatever else you want delivered to your door, and then need to post about it all on TwitFaceAgram after a post about corporate 'Merica run amok.
I’ve been doing this since the Inauguration.
A large enough percentage of the population buying only necessities local goods would get Trump ousted.
